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hanging precariously. 
Photographs are still 
lifes, and objects will be 
recognized. There’s fruit. 
There are candlesticks. 
Tableware anchors 
a similarity in our 
explorations.”
While Lipman mixes the 
materials used in her three-
dimensional work, Letinsky 
emphasizes the use of 
porcelain.
Lipman, who has the piece 
“Still LifeWith Vines” in 
the collection of the Detroit 
Institute of Arts, lives with 
family in Sheboyban Falls, 
Wisconsin, and they attend 
synagogue at Congregation 
Shalom in Milwaukee. 
She also has done work 
for the Jewish Museum 
in New York. The piece 
was a table composition 
combining different 
objects symbolic of Jewish 
holidays and her personal 
relationship to religion.
Lipman’s interest in art 
started at a very early age 
as she helped her mother, 
an artist whose work was 
very different. Study at the 
Massachusetts College of 

Art was followed by studies 
to get her bachelor’s degree 
at Tyler School of Art and 
Architecture at Temple 
University in Philadelphia. 
“When I first graduated, 
my purpose was not 
marketing the art,” Lipman 
said. “It was more just 
finding a way to continue 
to make work. I was in an 
academic environment for 
the first part of my career. 
I just tried to surround 
myself with opportunities 
to meet people and work in 
institutions that reaffirmed I 
was also an artist.”
Lipman has served as 
an education manager and 
residency director. 
Letinsky explained that 
her work includes tabletop 
scenes around food, the 
kitchen and home.
“In the earlier work, 

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Beth Lipman’s 
“Scale and Gazing 
Ball” (2020) 

Beth Lipman with 
some of the glass 
pieces she uses in 
her works 

Details

Shifting Frequencies will 
be on view through Dec. 
16 at Wasserman Projects, 
3434 Russell St. #502 in 
Detroit. The gallery is open 
noon-5 p.m. Wednesday-
Saturday. (313) 818-3550. 
wassermanprojects.com.

